Punjab, India News

Tajikistan News.Net Monday 30th November, 2009 London, Nov.30: While talking to some Kashmiris in London, Sardar Shaukat Kashmiri told us a story that on the day of Hashim Qureshi's wedding in Rawalpindi a famous writer and leader Dada Amir Haider was also present .

While India and Pakistan governments are finding out ways to resume dialogue, an incident of a Sikh being brutally beaten up and asked to convert to Islam has come to light.

The indictment of LeT leader Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects by a Pakistani anti-terror court for planning and helping execute the Mumbai attacks will be challenged in the Lahore High Court as authorities have no solid evidence against them, the militant commander's lawyer said on Sunday.

The Himachal Pradesh police Sunday said they have made a major breakthrough in stalling the auction in London of a George Cross, stolen in 2002 from the recipient soldier's widow, with the arrest of the man who had submitted an affidavit to the auctioneer claiming he had been gifted the medal.

Srinagar, Nov 25 : A man and his daughter from Punjab were arrested along with about 30 kg of banned fuki from Srinagar-Jammu national highway, official sources said here today.

He said the Punjab Home Department had conducted medical tests of 32,464 prisoners in 29 prisons across the province on the directives of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry when he visited various prisons two months ago.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's public relations officer Saturday confirmed that terror suspect David Coleman Headley was his half- brother but said there had been 'very little contact' with him for the past seven years.

Ajmal Kasab and nine other terrorists who attacked Mumbai last year were in constant touch with top LeT commanders in Pakistan during the strikes and received instructions to kill "political leaders, foreigners and prominent personalities of India." This was stated in the six-page chargesheet filed against the seven suspects in custody in Pakistan, ...

High quality cocaine worth Rs.10 crore in the international market was recovered by the Punjab police at Sahnewal town, 15 km from here, police said Saturday.

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: Police have placed the capital and the adjacent garrison city under a thick security blanket to counter terrorism during Eid days.

Chandigarh, Nov 27 : Punjab Police has won the 10th All India Police Lawn Tennis Championship held in Jammu after trouncing ITBP 2-0. In the First singles S.M.Sharma beat Rajesh Sharma with a convincing score 6-2 6-3. Sharma showed his artistry in his ground strokes and strategic drops and lops.

The Punjab government is constructing two high-security prisons in District Sahiwal and District Mianwali for terrorists while family rooms are being built in four jails where long term convicts' spouses and children will be allowed to stay with them three days a month.

Bathinda , Nov 26 : The excessive use of chemical fertilisers in Punjab has led to high levels of nitrate contamination in the groundwater, Greenpeace has said in a study conducted across some Punjab districts.

Canberra , Nov.26 : The Australian Government and the Australian Opposition today united with India in condemning the terrorist attacks that took place in Mumbai in 2008.

Pakistani prosecutors have charged seven suspects of planning and helping to carry out last year's terror attacks in Mumbai.

The projects will create 3,528 jobs, CM's media advisor, Harcharan Bains said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 'By Our Correspondent LAHORE PUNJAB Food Minister Malik Nadeem Kamran has said the federal government has allowed the Punjab government to procure rice crop in collaboration with the PASSCO for the first time and released Rs 500 million.

A Pakistani court has charged seven suspects in connection with the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people one year ago, a defence lawyer says.

Karachi News.Net Wednesday 25th November, 2009 Lahore, Nov.25 : At the time when Islamabad is pushing for resolution of the Kashmir issue in accordance with the UN resolutions of 1948 and 1949, Pakistan Muslim League -Quaid Secretary General Humayun Akhtar Khan has revealed that the PML-Q government was involved in back-channel diplomacy with India ...

Onto the border with Pakistan, not to cross given the current issues there, but to watch the border formalities.